[Coral-List] the passing of Charles Sheppard

[Bruno, John]

I never met Charles but I’ve long admired his research and wanted to share two recent paper by him and his colleagues (including Doug Fenner). The work he/they did on bleaching in the remote Chagos was incredible and hugely important.

John


Sheppard, C., Sheppard, A., Mogg, A., Bayley, D., Dempsey, A. C., Roche, R., ... Purkis, S. (2017). Coral bleaching and mortality in the Chagos Archipelago to 2017. Atoll Research Bulletin , 613(613), 1.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/320844951_Coral_Bleaching_and_Mortality_in_the_Chagos_Archipelago

Charles Sheppard, Anne Sheppard, Douglas Fenner. 2020.
Coral mass mortalities in the Chagos Archipelago over 40 years: Regional species and assemblage extinctions and indications of positive feedbacks. Marine Pollution Bulletin.154 doi.org/10.1016/j.marpolbul.2020.111075

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0025326X20301934?via%3Dihub